Posted on 04/02/2005 12:27:10 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The tragedy of Terri Schiavo illuminated many things, and none more startling than the deep anti-Christian bigotry among many on the left.
On March 29, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman warned that "liberal politicians, and even conservatives who aren't sufficiently hard-line" may someday have to fear assassination from religious believers "unless moderates take a stand against the growing power of domestic extremists."
Five days earlier, Mr. Krugman's colleague on the Times opinion page, Maureen Dowd, exclaimed that "we really are in a theocracy."
Writer and commentator Andrew Sullivan branded Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol an "ally of religious radicalism" and a revolutionary because Mr. Kristol blasted the federal courts' refusal to follow congressional urgings in the Schiavo legislation.
When Gov. Jeb Bush brought forward the affidavit of a distinguished physician, Dr. William Chesire, who argued for a reconsideration of Terri Schiavo's diagnosis, The New York Times tracked down Ronald Cranford, who had examined Terri Schiavo under court appointment. Dr. Cranford declared, "I have no idea who this Chesire is. . . . He has to be bogus, a pro-life fanatic."
These are examples of vitriolic caricature that are fit to print. The websites of the left were full of comments that cannot be printed about Christians who supported Terri Schiavo's parents, the Schindlers.
Two things are remarkable about this outpouring of fear and hate.
First, it ignored the numerous and visible allies of the Schindlers who cannot be classified by any stretch of any imagination as the "religious right." Among them: Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, Ralph Nader, and Jesse Jackson.
Second, the springboarding from the Schiavo case to (in Mr. Krugman's fevered mind) the threat of assassination or (in Ms. Dowd's world) theocracy is simply astonishing for its absurdity, its complete separation from logic or factual support. These are anti-Christian propagandists for whom no big lie is too big, no exaggeration too bold.
On the same day as Mr. Krugman's outburst, The Boston Globe ran an extensive profile of a family living in a Cincinnati suburb. The Wilkersons are evangelicals, and the Globe report treated them as though they were representative of an indigenous tribe from a faraway and curious culture, one that could not be expected to be familiar to the people of Boston.
This extraordinary piece simply underscored the distance that has developed between the mainstream of America and its elite journalists. The latter have lost sight of the normal and think it dangerous.
What an astonishing thing.
The hatred towards religious people nowadays has no rivals. It's sickening and shows a form of mental illness in people.
They want to harness the War on Terror and make it into a war on religion.
That's because religion is the only thing standing between them and the ability to perform whatever evil they desire. And it's not just religion informing politics and the law that they're worried about; it's also the religion that exists naturally within their own consciences.
Freepers [!] put up posts
(most of which got pulled) saying
Terri's husband and
others should be killed.
Freepers represent the sane
contingents among
political groups.
If even Freepers would talk
about crazy acts,
I don't blame at all
the Left for being afraid
of what nuts might do!
"I suspect that Christian haters will eventually get around to trying to create conflict between catholics and protestants."
They've tried it before. Remember when Bush spoke at, oh darn I forget the name, some university in So. Carolina? Very conservative protestant U. and the media was trying to sow disession by quoting some rather anti-Catholic things the founder had said? Bob Jones University, is that it?
Like they themselves don't think just as badly of Catholics as Bob Jones (whoever!) ever did.
They don't want any morality in politics because that will stop them from doing things like murdering defenseless women in cold blood.
The art and architecture are a hell of a lot better, not to mention the general tone of society.
I lost it the other day, I went into a Christian chat room on Easter and it was filled with anti-christians saying the most vile things about religious people. All I can say is they are lucky they didn't say those things in front of me.
Ping
I've been surprised by the level of acrimony generated by the Schiavo affair amongst Freepers. I thought Big Government and an out-on-control judiciary were the problem, but to read some of these threads these past few days, you would think that speaking taking a pro-life position in Terri's case was the real threat. I don't understand it.
****They want to harness the War on Terror and make it into a war on religion.***
I've been thinking the same thing for quite some time.
All it would take is a simple redefinition of "terrorist".
Eventually the new anti-terrorism powers are going to fall into the hands of the wrong people.
Err America is totally preaching hatred towards conservatives in general but especially at Christians. That station is an abomination.
They use a lot of code words like "neo con" too.
That might be their point --
That they have to be "lucky"
a person like you
isn't around when
they make a comment. Muslims
who speak out against
Muslim terrorists
are not anti-Muslim. Now,
Christians speaking out
against Christian nuts
are not anti-Christian, they
are anti-nut! See?
worse yet, and it HAS come to it, because they live off the "free speak" therory.. they need spoke to in ways words won't cover
personally I am sick of what seems to be the new standard in this country of, "let them talk, nothing will happen and they will go away".... folks, things ARE happening, and they ARE NOT going away
I think its time to take America back.... while we can
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